AlternativesSourced from Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot)

Tenderly alternatives

EVM developer platform with a multi-chain public RPC gateway

Tenderly runs a multi-chain public RPC gateway at `gateway.tenderly.co/public/<slug>` alongside its simulation and observability stack. The free, no-key tier covers nine EVM networks and gets pulled into the same dapps that pick PublicNode or dRPC as their default fallback endpoint. The question every developer faces before pasting a URL into a wallet config or a backend service is whether that endpoint is actually fast and reliable on the chain their product runs on, not whether the vendor's homepage says it is. This benchmark probes `eth_blockNumber` every 15 seconds against 15 audited no-key public RPC providers across 10 EVM chains (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Avalanche, BNB, Polygon, Linea, Scroll, Mantle), from three Railway regions (us-east, eu-west, sgp). Each provider gets the same identical JSON-RPC POST every cycle, so the recorded p50/p90/p99 reflects sustained round-trip latency rather than a marketing burst. The harness also classifies every response as `ok`, `http_err`, `jsonrpc_err`, `stale` or `timeout` and exposes archive-depth support for five historical depths (300 to 5,000,000 blocks). The cohort competing with Tenderly's gateway includes PublicNode, dRPC, 1RPC, MeowRPC, Nodies, Lava, Merkle, Flashbots Protect and Cloudflare, plus the chain-official foundation endpoints on Base, BNB, Arbitrum, Optimism and Avalanche. The leaderboard re-sorts every 15 seconds against fresh Prometheus samples, and the chain tab at the top of the page filters every query so the comparison stays per chain rather than smeared across an aggregate that mechanically favours single-chain endpoints.

Positioning

Tenderly built its RPC as an extension of a developer-tooling stack rather than as a standalone node fleet. The Node RPC product runs multi-region across EU and US, covers 80+ EVM networks, and exposes standard JSON-RPC and WebSocket. The architectural moat sits above the base RPC surface: the tenderly_ namespace ships simulateTransaction, simulateBundle, estimateGas, estimateGasBundle, traceTransaction, and decoding methods for inputs, errors, events, and ABI signatures. Node Extensions let a team write JavaScript or TypeScript that runs server-side under a custom JSON-RPC method name, so a project can compose a bespoke method (for example, simulate a mempool transaction) without deploying its own infrastructure. This is architecturally distinct from routing layers like dRPC and node fleets like PublicNode, neither of which owns a simulation engine or a scripting sidecar. For the rpc-capabilities axis, that translates into a coverage set biased toward pre-signing and post-mortem workflows: dry-running a transaction against forked state, tracing a decoded call graph, or profiling gas at bundle granularity. The typical use case is dApps whose UX depends on preview-before-sign or on gas quoting; teams migrate away when they need non-EVM chains or read-heavy public traffic that Node Extensions cannot cheaply serve.

About Tenderly: tenderly.co

Top 5 Tenderly alternatives

Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot) benchmark ledger. RPC latency per provider, live measured data.
Product			Latency aggregates					p50	Reliability
Color	№									24h

	01	BinanceBNB Chain dataseed RPC, Binance-operated	74 ms	76 ms	365 ms	84 ms	−73%	100.00%	0
	02	AvalancheAva Labs C-Chain public RPC, Avalanche C-Chain only	176 ms	192 ms	328 ms	182 ms	−36%	100.00%	0
	03	PublicNodeAllnodes-operated, 70+ chains, archive on most#1 · Ethereum#1 · Arbitrum#1 · Optimism#1 · Base#1 · Avalanche#1 · Linea#1 · Scroll	198 ms	356 ms	804 ms	230 ms	−28%	82.15%	47,746
	04	dRPCDecentralized RPC mesh, consensus-checked#1 · Polygon#1 · BNB Chain#1 · Mantle	223 ms	335 ms	605 ms	240 ms	−19%	89.15%	28,528
	05	NodiesPOKT Network's decentralized public RPC successor, 7+ chains	226 ms	281 ms	588 ms	247 ms	−18%	66.70%	8,628
	06	ArbitrumArbitrum Foundation public RPC, Arbitrum One only	252 ms	294 ms	418 ms	261 ms	−9%	100.00%	0
	07	BaseCoinbase-operated, Base mainnet RPC	258 ms	275 ms	386 ms	263 ms	−7%	100.00%	0
	08	MeowRPCFree public RPC, no registration	274 ms	356 ms	498 ms	277 ms	−1%	98.46%	133
	09	LavaDecentralized permissionless RPC mesh (ETH + Arbitrum no-key)	282 ms	875 ms	2.11 s	427 ms	+2%	99.27%	158
	10	TenderlyMulti-chain public gateway, 9 chains, no key	315 ms	330 ms	391 ms	317 ms	+14%	100.00%	1
	11	OptimismOptimism Foundation public RPC, Optimism mainnet only	334 ms	352 ms	411 ms	338 ms	+21%	100.00%	0
	12	FlashbotsPrivate-mempool RPC, anti-sandwich	698 ms	906 ms	975 ms	727 ms	+153%	100.00%	0

Best: 74 ms
Median: 258 ms
Worst: 698 ms
Spread: 6.4×328 ms → 2.11 s
Samples · 24h: 737,49013 providers

RPC latency · last 24 hours

Region

Show

Interactive bar chart, distribution view, per-chain drilldowns and chart export on the benchmark page.

Open benchmark

Measurements sourced from Fastest free public RPC for Ethereum, BNB, Polygon and 23 more chains (plus Solana and Polkadot). Methodology and raw data on the benchmark page.